The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 54-60 and 73-84 -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
It is played on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 41 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.
The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 58 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.
Tempo goes 58, 67 and 77 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.
PRACTISE THIS BEAT →A one-bar groove on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 77 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 31% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 28-34, 54-60 and 73-84. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.
32 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.